Becoming Alien

Author	Amy Thomson
ISBN	0441006329

See also my blog review: http://examinedworlds.blogspot.com/20...

The depth of world-building and character development in this book is amazing. The style of world-building is different than what you get in Herbert's Dune universe or Tolkien's Middle-Earth. Maybe it would have been...

Author	Carolyn Ives Gilman
ISBN	0380797992

Tedla is young, beautiful and blond but is neither he nor she. On a far-off world, an asexual class of blands exists to serve their fellow humans, protected and isolated from contact with the rest of the universe. But no bland has ever left its sheltered homeworld--until now. Tedla has been found in an...

Author	Suzette Haden Elgin
ISBN	1558614036

An instant cult classic upon first publication, Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue trilogy has earned wide critical acclaim, shocking and captivating a loyal readership among science fiction and women's literature audiences alike.

Sequel to the enormously popular Native Tongue, The...

Author	Nancy Kress
ISBN	0765319861

After I received book recommendation, I checked the GR information and I confused. The rating of this book is pretty low, around 3.4. After I read it, I understand why. The idea of this book is fresh, and it is the main strength of the book. The problem is at the execution.

The beginning is pretty...

Author	Tony Daniel
ISBN	0061020257

The human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system -- and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable. The inner system of the Met -- with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables -- is supported by the repression and enslavement of humanity's progeny,...

Author	Algis Budrys
ISBN	0425038122

Cover Artist: Don Brautigam

The eponymous protagonist, Laurent Michaelmas, is an ex-hacker who had, early in the computer era, left back doors in many key pieces of software which run vital government & commercial computers. As a result, by the turn of the millennium, he's become one...

Author	Brenda Cooper
ISBN	0765315971

The colony planet Fremont is joyous, riotous, and very wild.  Its grasses can cut your arms and legs to ribbons, the rinds of its precious fruit can skewer your thumbs, and some of the predators are bigger than humans.  Meteors fall from the sky and volcanoes erupt.  Fremont is verdant, rich, beautiful,...

Author	Paul J. McAuley
ISBN	0345351754

Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that. She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investigation the scientists begin to suspect it has been artificially...

Author	Justina Robson
ISBN	0553587412

A daring and original new novel from one of sci fi’s most provocative voices, Natural History is a stunning work of bold ideas, unforgettable characters, and epic adventure as one woman seeks to explore what may be the greatest mystery of all....

IMAGINE A WORLD...
Half-human, half-machine,...

Author	K.W. Jeter
ISBN	0451147669

"The world we perceive is the result of what we analyze of what we perceive; what then did we perceive in the first place, and what did we analyze?" (p. 130)
This is about the strongest tie that I've seen between Philip K Dick and the modern expressions of cyberpunk. The narrative darts between the original...

Author	L. Timmel Duchamp
ISBN	0974655961

Seattle, February 2076. The Marq ssan bring business as usual to a screeching halt all over the world, and Professor Kay Zeldin joins Robert Sedgewick, US Chief of Security Services, in his war against the invaders. Soon Kay is making rather than writing history. But as she goes head-to-head against...

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Elizabeth Hand

book 2 in elizabeth hand's beyond-futuristic trilogy is just as baroque, decadent, and lush as the first novel. it features the return of a now-zombified, still sinister, yet surprisingly sympathetic Aviator Margolis Tast'annin...as well as twisted royalty ruling over an enclosed babylon, a sad...

Author	Robert Charles Wilson
ISBN	0765302616

A Hidden Place is RCW’s first novel. If I hadn’t read so, I wouldn’t have even guessed, that’s how skillfully written is.

The story takes place in a small rural American town, the eerie and creepy kind, due to both harsh conditions of Depression years and its inhabitants.

After...

Author	Julie E. Czerneda
ISBN	0886779995

One of my favorite books of all time and one of my favorite Czerneda books. I also love A Thousand Words for Stranger. This was a very character driven novel and I think this was the first time I was really aware of a character driven story vs. a plot driven story. I loved the characters in this book. (I read...

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Susan Palwick

The three basic human needs are food, water…and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
 
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs...

Author	M.A. Foster
ISBN	0879975733

The human race had divided into two species. One had created the other - normal humans had experimented in forced evolution and had produced the ler, a sort of supermen race, but pacifistic and contemplative. The ler fled from the turbulent worlds of homo sapiens and established their own quiet planetary...

Author	Sarah Zettel
ISBN	0446602922

"Reclamation" Heretic priest turned data pirate, Eric Born has run from his past for years. Then his steady clients - a self-proclaimed master race called the Vitae - kidnap a mysterious pariah named Arla Stone from the Realm of the Nameless, the shattered, pre-technological planet Eric fled long...

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Paul Levinson

Phil D'Amato, a New York City forensic detective (also featured in several of Levinson's popular short stories and two subsequent novels), is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on Earth--and one of his best friends is a recent casualty. Unless Phil can unravel...

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Kay Kenyon

Zoya Kundara has lived on the space vessel Star Road for two hundred fifty years. As its Ship Mother, kept alive in a state of pseudoimmortality, she has provided wisdom and counsel to succeeding generations of its crew, self-exiled survivors of earth’s great plague.

But now, to escape the...

Author	Bruce Sterling
ISBN	0441372066

A far-future Moby-Dick by the author of Schismatrix: A desperate addict on a bleak, arid planet boards a whaling vessel to hunt the drug he craves.

The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the...

Author	Lucius Shepard
ISBN	0752816136

The most original zombie novel ever written!

A carnival worker dead of alcohol poisoning, Donnell Harrison has been reborn with new memories and a profound literary talent. To reconnect him to the world and make him pliant, the reanimation team employs Jocundra Verret, a therapist who has...

Author	Kelley Eskridge
ISBN	1933500131

Dangerous Space is a collection of seven seductive stories by Kelley Eskridge, whose novel Solitaire was a New York Times Notable Book, with an introduction by Geoff Ryman (author of Was and Air). The opening story, "Strings," takes us to a world that tightly controls musical expression and values...

Author	Lisa Mason
ISBN	1548106119

The year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, lab-designed drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, free love, dropouts, flower children. An age of innocence, a time of danger: The Summer of Love. San Francisco is the Summer of Love: a convergence...

Author	Philip José Farmer
ISBN	0812524683

About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were (are?) contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers titillated their public with hints of their true natures...